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Tuesday, January 27, 2009

Tuesday, January 27, 2009

This was ordered by a medical center to celebrate their Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetists (CRNAs, see?). The bakery no doubt felt very clever outfitting the nurses with giant mallets in addition to the needles ("the better to knock you out with, my dear"), but when you couple those with the stalker-ific inscription:

"Every heartbeat...Every breath...Every second...We'll be watching."

...the creepiness factor pretty much goes off the hilarity scale.

Submitter Anony M. would also like me to point out the giant crack down the middle where the two cakes were cemented together, the black and yellow icing bleeding into each other, and the fact that this cost $150. That may all be true, Anony, but in my mind any cake that lets me reference old Police songs is well worth someone else's hard-earned money.

I'm sorry I totally didn't see nurses in scrubs with mallets at first peek. I saw leprechauns with steins. I thought maybe the unit had a drinking problem or this was a very early St. Patty's Day cake.

I'm rather ignorant in the medical field and didn't know immediately what "CRNA" stood for. That being said, until I read your description, I was under the impression it was a cake celebrating homicidal leprechauns.

Holy cow! Those are supposed to be nurses?! I thought they were little stalker leprechans with mallets and stakes to drive through the hearts of vampires. I thought it was a little odd that they were holding the stakes pointy-side up, though....

I think I'd be intimidated into paying the $ just because the mind that could come up with homicidal leprechauns and also asking for that much $ for something so obviously wrecktastic obviously belongs to a sociopath.

I totally thought they were dwarves/elves/gnomes, as well. Even after I read it was to honor nurses, I still didn't see scrubs, I saw dwarves. It wasn't until you said you loved that they'd given the nurses mallets that the lightbulb went on. Is that my fault? Or the decorator's?

I thought it was an open book about leprachauns! it just needed some four leaf clovers and it would celebrate Paddy's day! I don't think it would keep until then though because the boarder is already looking past it's use by date!How do these people make a living?

People, people, people, if this is a full sheet cake, and it looks as though it might be, that serves 108 servings. $150 divided by 108 = $1.38ish per serving. That's NOTHING, any custom cake decorator worth their salt charges at least $3.00 per serving. Now, I'm not saying this is an excellent example of custom cake work, but at $1.38 per serving, you get what you pay for!

LOL! Working in a hospital I thought this was pretty hilarious. Anesthetists have a rep for being kinda quiet and reserved. Who would of thought they have a deliciously wicked sense of humor? Love the mallets!!

I guess it goes along with the whole stalker theme of standing out with hammer and needle for every breath you take.... every move you make... every bond you break every step you take... they'll a be a watchin' you!

Whenever I have to wake up from anesthesia my head hurts so badly that I *wish* someone would hit me with a mallet. That said, I feel bad about this one - it looks like someone worked so hard and stretched his creativity so far, then screwed up so much. I'd tell the wreckerator to keep taking risks until someone appreciates his art, but first he needs to practice smoothing out his foundation layer and study the color wheel.

Wow, seems it was a good idea in someone's mind, but didn't translate well. I was figuring the green uniforms might be that hospital's dress code for CRNAs (like the OR staff at the hospital where I work wear blue-green scrubs). And the words make sense, though putting them in a way that resembles a Police rip-off is hilarious.

And WTF? $150 for that? Seriously, that hospital needs to spend its money better. Ouch.

Aaron, I think "Registered Nurse" is generally a title in and of itself so you can tell your RNs from your LVNs. Therefore, they would need to be separately certified to hit people with mallets. (it's a special nine week training *nods*)

Nice..very very nice! I work for Anesthesiologists and I know for a fact that their method of choice IS in fact the mallet needle tactic of putting people to sleep. Then to wake them up after surgery they put a funnel in their mouthes and pour in hot sauce. It works wonders every time!

The "Certified" and "Anaesthetist" go together and the "Registered Nurse" goes together. Due to the wonders of the English language, the C-R-N-A word order is the only combo that works (try it! Fun for the whole family). All nurses are Registered Nurses (RNs--unless they are Licensed Practical Nurses, LPNs), but not all nurses are certified to give anaesthesia (only CRNAs); it's an intense specialty program earned after earning an RN.

I'd like to mention the laugh I got re: the Certificate of Redundancy Certificates being handed out by a guy named Aaron... Also, wouldn't those be Certificate of Repetition Certificates?

AM I the only one who did not think they were leprechauns?I actually thought this was kinda clever!...just took my daughter to the hospital so the oral surgeon could pull some baby teeth..(sigh)..and the Nurse Anesthetist really could've used one of those bad mallets! We settled for Versed instead and then the "sleepy gas"

The ONLY things that bug me here are the borders and the crappy joining job down the middle.Why black and yellow???? Maybe those are the colors of the hospital logo...?-Suz

Considering the musical inspiration, all I can say is STALKER CRNA!! With needles to drug you and [whatever your interpretation of the rectangle things] to finish you off!

My 50th-birthday cake, designed to feed 80 people, cost $125, and it was done by a professional baker whose work takes my breath away (pun intended). It was beautiful and tasted divine. I would NOT have paid $150 for this mother of all wrecks.

Word verification: nolikery. The rule against sampling in the lollipop factory.

I have no problem with this cake. Anesthesiologists (wow, spelled it right on the first try!) knock people out--hence the very appropriate mallets--and monitor their vital signs to make sure they don't kill them, and it IS creepy. They are basically administering drugs to keep you in a constant state of not quite deadness. I'm certain the requester knew exactly how creepy that was and agreed on the price in advance.

The only bakery cakes I have ever bought are the deeply discounted undecorated sale cakes, like a little Black Forest Cake for $12. I have no idea how much a custom cake should cost, but as soon as you go asking for custom artwork (I'm sure you don't get mallet-and-needle-wielding medical personnel out of a catalogue) I don't think that seems completely out of line, especially if the number of servings described by Trudi is correct.

I'd be interested in a future post that outlined what people could expect to pay for various wrecked and unwrecked cakes.

I don't know, my first reaction was that they looked liked they were masked people ready to do a robbery and that combined with the stalker type wording.....why couldn't they make the face masks the same color as the shoes....that nice blue color....because with the green it also almost looks like they have are sporting green beards!!!Blessings,Melissa D. SC

Yes, indeed, the best thing about this one IS flashing back to the Police (except now, I won't be able to get that song out of my head for at least a week).While it is very reassuring to know that the CRNAs are actually keeping tabs on someone THAT well (which is their job), WHO CARES? It almost seems like a response to a bunch of disgruntled CRNA's whine session about getting no respect or something, you know?("Listen, we've GOT to get them something NICE, you know-- to let them know we appreciate ALL and EVERY thing they DO! Kiss a few butts...Jeeze, we don't want'em hitting us up for a RAISE right now!") And, for crying out loud, that must be one big ass cake (the size of a twin mattress?) to cost THAT much denero!

I need a humor transplant, I guess.Scrubs don't have skirts.Hospital green is so traditional they're getting away from it."We'll" is in white because it's for emphasis. And frankly, I _want_ my anaesthetist to be watching me very closely indeed! It's their job!

The masks do look like beards at first glance, even though they're green and the hair isn't green.

Oh the horror!!!The last one brings back memories, horrible stick my head in the sand like an ostrich memories, but memories non the less.My mother and now mother in law wanted to surprise me with the cake topper for my wedding. They kept saying oh your going to love it. Well it was similar to the topper on the last cake. I wanted to die when I say it.

I own a bakery and honestly, the price tag was unreal....it is an ugly cake. Forget the art work, pretend like that was all good, everything else my course 1 students can do better, smoothing, borders everything! And sheet cakes aren't going to sell for $3 a serving unless they are amazing. It's not the same as a 100 serving wedding cake, come on! This is junk and shows why our hospital bills are so high! People stick it to businesses and those with good jobs....sad.

Does anyone else beside me see the resemblance between this cake and CARDBOARD?!?! No? Hm.

But, of course, it's a piece of cardboard with LEPRECHAUNS who want to attack you with their mallets, so understandably it's 150 dollars. Of course. Just slap some leprechauns on and the price is instantly upped.

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